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Cross-fitting in Forest Learners Basic Example?

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Description

In the Forest Learners Basic Example notebook, the nuisance estimators are preselected from the full X, T, and Y data before CausalForestDML, etc are fit. How does that interfere with the cross-fitting strategy? As I understand it, the data-adaptive nuisance models deliver consistent confidence intervals in the last stage only when selected via cross-fitting.

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Start with the Forest Learners Basic Example notebook and the CausalForestDML setup; inspect how nuisance estimators are selected relative to fitting. Done when the example's cross-fitting behavior and confidence-interval implications are explained or the notebook is updated accordingly.

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jupyter-notebook
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documentation, machine-learning
Issue type
Documentation
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4/5
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3-5 days
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Needs clarification
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